A TikTok video showing Russia dwarfed by the continent of Africa shows how many world maps misrepresent the true scale of countries.

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) Context: The map shared online moderately exaggerated the ...

Compare Urban Life Around the Globe With New Side-by-Side City Maps More than half of humanity now lives in cities, and that proportion is increasing.

A fascinating interactive map shows how different countries really compare in size – a problem that has for centuries stumped cartographers trying to show the spherical Earth on a flat piece of ...

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How one little company is combining math and language to map the globe and create strong passwords — using the power of 3 random words.

Apple in iOS 15 overhauled the Maps app to add a much more detailed design in select areas, an interactive globe, improved driving directions, better ...